Sales Reps – Creating a Collection

Collections are essentially custom, private catalogs. The rest of Edelweiss is very much based on either publisher-generated catalogs or filtered lists of titles. A collection, though, is a “catalog” that you can create and share with your colleagues and customers, and that your accounts can also order from just like a publisher-created catalog. You can also create a collection of titles to print, email, or share with colleagues and customers.

Please note that collections are not visible to all Edelweiss users but are only visible to the people with whom you share them. If you’d like a list of your titles that all users can see, you (or a catalog administrator at your company) will want to add a catalog.

Create a collection by clicking the Create Collection button on your Catalogs page…:

…Or, in a catalog or other list of titles by selecting Add to and choosing Create New Collection, Add to Collections(s) or Remove from active collections.


When creating a new collection, you’ll see this screen, where you can name your new collection and select Create and Add to save it.

At this point, you can find your collection on the Catalogs page under My Collections.


Within a collection, selecting Edit will enable you to add a cover image and summary, if you’d like.

Either save this and close it if you plan on browsing around Edelweiss to add titles as you go, or click Manage (x) Titles to add a list of ISBNs to your sparkly new collection.

In the Manage Titles window, simply click Add Titles to paste in a list whether from an Excel file or elsewhere.

Once the ISBNs have been added, you can easily control their order by using the available tools shown below.

Again, you’ll find your collections just as you find other catalogs—details here! You can email, share, or export a collection from the Actions menu found at the top of the title list view. Either select just the relevant titles using the checkmarks at the top left of each title listing and click Actions, or Select All titles from the Actions menu. Learn more about sharing collections (and more) via email here.

For your accounts and colleagues to have full access to your super-useful collection, you’ll need to share it with them, just like when you share a markup. This makes the collection visible in their account, rather than simply existing as a link somewhere in their email.

Find details about sharing your collections here. The process is the same whether you’re sharing with an account or with a coworker/colleague.